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Is preserving languages a good thing?
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RE: Is preserving languages a good thing?
(October 29, 2020 at 5:12 pm)Rank Stranger Wrote: Diversity is pretty well necessary to stabilize any complex system. It's true of aquariums, and it's true of societies. A big part of any culture is encoded in the language. There's no stopping said current mass language-extinction, but IMO it'd be a real stretch to say that's a good thing.

Check out Newspeak for a taste of what that would be.

After a short Google search, I came across an incomplete translation tool on a website. Only a few key words, inspired by George Orwell's "1984" novel, were translated into Newspeak. It had the right idea of what it would look like.
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RE: Is preserving languages a good thing?
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."--Thomas Jefferson
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